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He Walked by Night · Beat 18 · permalink

Bar

15:57–16:04 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0116:01

Play from 15:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, facing slightly left, looking down visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, center, looking down visible
  • man in dark suit, no hat, looking down, right side of frame visible
Seen
bottles on shelves [frame:1], dark suits and fedoras [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, conspiracy; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, medium close-up, static framing

Three men in suits and hats stand close together indoors, looking down at something out of frame. The lighting is high-contrast and the setting appears to be a dim interior with shelves in the background.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from He Walked by Night (1948) at 16:01 (passage 15:57–16:04); US record: No renewal found

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